Yukon judge reserves decision in election petition until at least next month
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Yukon Liberal Party candidate Pauline Frost speaks with media following a judicial recount of the riding of Vuntut Gwitchin s results of the Yukon election, in Whitehorse on April 19, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Kelly
WHITEHORSE – A judge in the Supreme Court of Yukon has reserved her decision over the validity of a ballot cast in the territory’s last election by a jailed voter in the riding where the former health minister lost her seat in a tie vote.
Chief Justice Suzanne Duncan says her decision will be released late next month or early August, but she will prioritize making the ruling as soon as possible.
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It says in a statement it has identified at least 20 cut blocks within 150 kilometres of Vancouver where old-growth logging activities have been proposed.
Squamish Councillor Khelsilem says in the statement the call for a moratorium on old-growth logging requires B.C. to honour its own commitments after pledging to implement recommendations from an independent report on managing old forests.
The report released last year urged the province to defer logging in old-growth forests at risk of irreversible biodiversity loss while it shifts to a sustainable system, and to support the full participation of Indigenous nations throughout the process.
Forest Minister Katrine Conroy says the province is already in talks with the Squamish Nation about old-growth deferrals and earlier this year they struck an agreement to protect an area on the Sunshine Coast.